It’s been pretty obvious from additional research, including all the above DATA that this Green Button initiative in Ontario (at least) has been bastardized into a money making opportunity for a select few. It comes as no surprise as this is also how licensed trades contracting is managed in Ontario. You pay to play, everyone else gets shut out, including the consumer. Ontario (and Canada, regardless of ruling party) has been and will continue to be, dedicated to anti-consumer legislation.
Instead of paying to play games, I’ve instead been investing elsewhere.
A bit late to the party, but I actually have a certificate of insurance for my IT consulting business, anyone have any resources on how to sign up for HydroOne as a 3rd party service provider? I have recently added full power monitoring to my panels, I’m curious how it lines up with what I’m actually getting billed for. It’s been a bit of a rabbit hole for sure.
It all relies on a specific service provider/aggregator. If you utility, like mine, is not using this one then you are note necessarily out of the woods.
It is a step in the right direction but the key problem is the utilities are trying to do the minimum…
Enova Power Kitchener / Waterloo area supports the green button.I was hoping to be able to import the data.
I ended up ordering a Emporia Energy Vue Home Energy Monitor - Gen 3 from Rona yesterday for $163+tax CAD, free shipping. (if you do, don’t forget the $15 off coupon! it makes it cheaper then ordering from the US), hopefully the install is fairly easily.
Hey folks, just wanted to share that I was able to have my Toronto Hydro data automatically imported. It lags behind a day but otherwise works pretty well.
It mostly relies upon some work done by others (web scraping to download the data, and a custom integration to import it), so original credits to them. I forked & edited the web scraping tool because the website had been updated since it was written.